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A brief history of credit card debt.

Tracking the mortality and morality of DJT

Read to the end for a magical sounding supermarket freezer aisle

We’re entering a new renaissance of software development. We should all be excited, despite the uncertainties that lie ahead.

Free and independent tracker documenting Trump-related actions using verified news sources. Statements & plans mapped to authoritarianism domains.

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture == unchartered territory

I think I’d heard the term “k-shaped economy” somewhere before but didn’t really know what it meant until I watched this video: American Airlines is changing

At a private dinner a few months ago, Jensen Huang apparently said what I’ve been thinking for some time. The US is significantly behind China in AI

In an absolute barn burner of an essay, Matthew Walther asks hard questions about our obligations to those rendered passive, distracted, and poor by our technological society.

We ought to see localism not as an accomplice to the tribalism that’s everywhere rising, but as an antidote to it.

Women’s “ick” for AI isn’t technophobia or a gap to close. It’s wisdom to act on.

Yesterday, Vox somehow managed to write an entire article about the history of Oracle and its founder Larry Ellison without mentioning the CIA even once.

Owner calls it ‘ludicrous’ Dissent Cafe and Bar was shut down after complaint, the first in Australia’s capital since new federal hate symbol laws

In the past, the word "empathy" was hardly controversial among conservatives. President Ronald Reagan and Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Arizona) never used "empathy" as an insult. But in recent years, many far-right MAGA Republicans and evangelical Christian nationalists are attacking "empathy" as a major...

A woman used a tool, shared what she made, it might even save her some time, and then some men lost their minds. This is not a new story. In 1925, Dr. Guy Manning stood before a medical conference …

The marginal costsMarginal costs of companies in the digital industry are approaching zero. This clearly distinguishes the business modelsBusiness models of Facebook or Google from the business modelsBusiness models of the old economy. While the marginal...

In today's economy, selling a new zero-marginal cost product is a real challenge, as it is difficult to determine a product's “correct” sales price ba…

Inside the civil war at the anti-woke university backed by Bari Weiss.

It is a curious thing when an artist, thinker, or writer gains influence outside the audience he intends or is comfortable with. When a thinker associated with the right becomes popular on the left, or a novelist associated with the progressive left becomes popular among conservative readers, there can be a sort of strain felt between the audience in fact and the “true” audience, or between those who feel themselves to be the authentic recipients of a work’s message and meaning and those who, to the true believers, come across as opportunistic in their enjoyment of works in tension with their own views. The same is true when a writer working within an academic discipline gets picked up by those outside it: Those working within that discipline may find the co-opting of these thinkers misplaced at best or malicious at worst.

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Town residents were shocked that Donald Trump’s promised nationwide raids actually affected them.